Neutral Milk Hotel Is Back, 15 Years Later

Indie band plans international tour

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The indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel has effectively been broken up since 1998—but the group is about to tour again. Right now, Jeff Mangum et al are planning to start in the South (Asheville and Athens, Georgia) in October before heading to Taipei and Tokyo; just five dates have been announced thus far, but the band's website promises more will come, reports the Huffington Post. Some of the profits will go to a charity for Mongolian children, the band says via its site, which Vulture notes also features "a strange multilingual reunion note" that begins: "and of water course womb rume is a wandering the welkin woman whose fune caul is all umbilical cord code..."

The cover of the band's album 'In an Aeroplane Over the Sea.'
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel's most well known album, is the most bought vinyl of all time. The band isn't exactly unheard of. I personally like the band, and find this is good news. A new My Bloody Valentine album, a new Boards of Canada album due to be released, AND Neutral Milk Hotel's reunion?! This might be the finest year of music the 2000's has ever seen.

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